06 februar 2007

Blog holiday

I'm taking a holiday from blogging. I'm finding it hard to find time for my craft these days with work, housebuilding and small children and so I have to take a break. Hope to come back stronger and craftier.

Out with the old - inn with the new

I started working this week after staying home with baby Sunni for about a year. I also have a new employer, so there's a lot of changes in our daily routine..

I'm a bit sad as I missed her first steps, though (actually a lot sad, *sigh*). But her father at least saw her 1. walk. Now I'm trying all the time to make her walk a bit, but she has only taken one step and then sat down so far.

My old workplace sent the flowers on the right and my new the ones on the left. How nice! Thank you!

NINJALOVE - work in progress

I love drawing cute characters. This is sort of a new style for me, all computer-made.. these are obviously friendly ninjas as they have no weapon. Maybe they should have big flowers as "weapons". Hmmm... Whatcha think??

Venner og familie - dato kommer snart!!

02 januar 2007

Chocolate Withdrawal Syndrome

No more candy left from christmas... so I had to make a cake. It is a creative variety of the brownie sort. Dark chocolate brownie with rasberries. Yum! It's simple to make and faaantastic. Here's the receipe:

Melt butter and stir in chocolate until melted. Add rasberries. Wip eggs and sugar until fluffy. Stir inn all the ingredients into the egg and sugar mix. Pour into a big tin lined with paper. The bigger the tin the thinner the brownie.

ca 30 min 200 degrees C

It should be slighty damp/runny in the middle as it will harden up when cool because of the sugar. Yummy warm and cold. To die for with vanilla ice-cream and some chopped almonds.

20 desember 2006

Lacker

Oh, swoon finally all done with the wrapping! I fastened the nametags with lacker this year and I must say it looks really cool. The stamp says "God Jul" (Merry Christmas) and it turns out shiny and red. Loovely!

08 desember 2006

Christmas ballerina-shoes for Matilda

This is a test-shoe for Matilda. The pictures are bad, as there was no daylight. It really looks cute in real-life. Not as gaudy as in the pictures. I'm trying out different patterns to see what will fit Matildas foot. It is very important that I get it right. Little princesses need shoes, even if they don't have A4-shaped feet. These can be turned inside out to make a pair of golden shoes. The fabric is chinese silk. They turned out quite thick. The finished ones probably need to be thinner. Hmm, however silk-fabric is quite cold.

07 desember 2006

Gifts from Mari

I got this in the mail some time ago from Mari in Finland. She is so sweet and talented. She turnes anything paper into lovely cards and paper-crafty stuff. There was yarn, a lovely card she made from some paper I sent her and (!) a christmas calendar. With chocolate!!! And they are delicious! My son has discovered it and now he's claming every 3. chocolate as his. So the three of us are charing it now. (My daughter is so small, no choc for her... more for the rest of us..). Luckily, sometimes my son will chare with me. (Puh-leeese, can I have a bite) Honestly, he has his own calendar with toys and a little sweet every day. Grr, don't mess with my chocolate...

Japanese sweets... yum!

I went to a japanese shop in Oslo to get some sweets for my japanese class' last meeting. Look at the cute packaging!!!

The one with the cat and dog on the front reads "kiteirando" (Kittyland). There was also japanese cakes with red bean paste in them. Delicious, but a very strange consitency, the white stuff around them (some sort of rice dough) is soft and when you pick them up they sort of sag (!). Odd, but interesting and very sweet. Me and my sister ended up eating almost the hole bag (with some help from her flatmate).The Milky sweet I really didn't care for but the packaging is soooo cute.

Presents started...

I finished this scarf yesterday with some of the fabric I got from my auntie. Lots of lovely fabrics. I put in a bit of japanese patterned cotton. I love the coloures, a bit late for autumn, but still. It's suprisingly warm as one side is a soft wool fabric.